That’s one of the joys about playing in Australia because you’re dealing with a continent that does not worship Axl Rose and Metallica. — Henry Rollins.

Posts Tagged ‘coffee’

travel diary — day 350

day 346 — it snowed like mad the whole day. after break­fast i walked around town tak­ing phở­to­graphs of the snow. it was a lot of fun because people were happy to let me take their pic­ture — even though it was snow­ing and freez­ing cold. i returned to chow­khang gompa and took some phởtos […]

travel diary — day 340

day 336 — basic­ally, i’m killing time until i get my pakistan visa. i can’t leave delhi without it. so i have been spend­ing my days as lazily as pos­sible, try­ing not to spend too much money.
i bought some under­wear and spent much of the day online. i had din­ner at a rooftop bar which was […]

travel diary — day 315

day 311 — today was a fairly easy day. i had break­fast and drank a cof­fee at an out­door café. i checked email and walked around town. i spent a few hours online in the after­noon, had din­ner and slept.
day 312 — my morn­ing routine had settled into break­fast and cof­fee. the small café had a […]

travel diary — day 310

day 306 — new years eve — the day began with break­fast and chess online, after which i checked out and headed to the air­port. i flew to burma and met some other tour­ists (two koreans and a swiss guy) and we all agreed to share a taxi to town. i had a few errands […]

travel diary — day 295

day 291 — i got another early start and headed to kl cent­ral sta­tion. i bought a flight to kota kin­abalu and a return train ticket to singa­pore. it was a busy morn­ing, so i raced back to my hotel and checked out. i stored my bag and returned to the train sta­tion to make […]

travel diary — day 280

day 276 — i spent the day at the hotel and café. i had star­ted feel­ing a little sick again so i didn’t want to go too far. i messed around online all day.
day 277 — i felt much bet­ter today, but i was reluct­ant to stray too far from the hotel. i stayed in the […]

travel diary — day 275

day 271 — the trip to borobodur required a 4am start. there were only three of us on the tour and when the car picked me up we headed straight off. after an hour we arrived at the ‘lookout point’ which was where we were sup­posed to watch the sun­rise. we walked up a steep […]

travel diary — day 265

day 261 — today was my last day in aus­tralia. i packed and checked out of my room. i had a cof­fee in town and met ken­nis for lunch. she’d just returned from a kakadu trek, which she said was fant­astic. we had chinese for lunch and spent the after­noon together. we chat­ted until my […]

travel diary — day 260

day 256 — remem­brance day — i had break­fast and cof­fee with a black fella called mur­ray, did some wash­ing and read my book. then i got the bus into town to sort out some travel arrange­ments. i was going to buy a ticket to bali, but was told that i needed an out­bound flight […]

travel diary — day 255

day 251 — today was hot, so i spent a lazy day in alice springs. i had an early cof­fee and talked to the owner of a didgeri­doo store. the owner was a didj player and i got some advice from him. after­wards i got online, catch­ing up on some chess games and had dinner. […]

travel diary — day 230

day 226 — after break­fast i took the bus into the city and found myself in the queen street mall. it’s such a long time since i’ve been there, and i was sur­prised how little the mall had changed. i wandered around for a while look­ing at the shop win­dows and con­tem­plat­ing a beer at […]

travel diary — day 225

day 221 — when i checked into the hostel (the day before) i got a sydney city map which also had some coupons attached. one of the coupons was for ‘break­fast with the koalas’ at sydney’s wild­life centre. it soun­ded good, but required get­ting up early.
i walked down to darling har­bour and was dis­ap­poin­ted to find […]

travel diary — day 215

day 211 — after a sleep-in, i went out to a korean res­taur­ant for lunch. i just can’t get enough kim­chi jig­gae dur­ing my stay in korea. after that, christina and i went to see the movie ‘one week’ at the cinema. it’s a really good movie actu­ally. it was a bit weird at the […]

travel diary — day 185

day 181 — i booked my train to beijing and a ter­ra­cotta war­rior tour. i walked down to the drum tower and took some phở­tos. then i walked around the muslim quarter, bought some dried pine­apple, took phở­tos and walked back to the hotel. that even­ing i met a couple of dutch trav­el­ers and we […]

travel diary — day 180

day 176 — i spent the morn­ing at the hotel an said good­bye to hok­uto (he was fly­ing back to chengdu). i had two more days in lhasa by myself, but the guide had to go to the air­port with hok­uto, so i just spent the after­noon wan­der­ing around town. i wanted to take some […]

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